East Korea Warm Current, surface oceanic current, the northward-flowing branch of the Tsushima Current in the Sea of Japan. After flowing along the coast of Korea, the East Korea Warm Current turns eastward and divides into the Tsugaru Warm Current and the Sōya Warm Current. The Tsugaru Warm

South Korea: Finance: The government-owned Bank of Korea, headquartered in Seoul, is the country’s central bank, issuing currency and overseeing all banking activity. All banks were nationalized in the early 1960s, but by the early 1990s these largely had been returned to private ownership. Foreign branch banking has been allowed…

North Korea, country in East Asia. It occupies the northern portion of the Korean peninsula, which juts out from the Asian mainland between the East Sea (Sea of Japan) and the Yellow Sea; North Korea covers about 55 percent of the peninsula’s land area. The country is bordered by China and Russia

history of North Korea, a survey of important events and people in the history of North Korea since the Korean War. For a discussion of the earlier history of the peninsula, see Korea. In 1948, when the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was established, Kim Il-Sung became the first premier of

history of South Korea, history of South Korea since the Korean War. For a discussion of the earlier history of the Korean peninsula, see Korea. The First Republic, established in August 1948, adopted a presidential system, and Syngman Rhee was subsequently elected its first president. South Korea

North Korea, country in East Asia. It occupies the northern portion of the Korean peninsula, which juts out from the Asian mainland between the East Sea (Sea of Japan) and the Yellow Sea; North Korea covers about 55 percent of the peninsula’s land area. The country is bordered by China and Russia

national flag consisting of two horizontal stripes of blue separated from a wide red central stripe by thinner stripes of white; off-centre toward the hoist is a white disk bearing a red star. The flag has a width-to-length ratio of 1 to 2.The northern part of Korea saw the establishment of a

South Korea, country in East Asia. It occupies the southern portion of the Korean peninsula. The country is bordered by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) to the north, the East Sea (Sea of Japan) to the east, the East China Sea to the south, and the Yellow Sea to the west; to

South Korea, country in East Asia. It occupies the southern portion of the Korean peninsula. The country is bordered by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) to the north, the East Sea (Sea of Japan) to the east, the East China Sea to the south, and the Yellow Sea to the west; to

national flag consisting of a white field bearing a central red-blue disk and four groups of black bars. The flag has a width-to-length ratio of 2 to 3.The need for a national flag arose in Korea in the late 19th century when, under pressure from its powerful neighbours, China and Japan, Korea

China: Other languages: A significant number of Koreans are concentrated in an autonomous prefecture in eastern Jilin along the North Korean border.

Korean Air Lines flight 007, flight of a passenger jet that was shot down by Soviet air-to-air missiles on September 1, 1983, near Sakhalin Island, Russia, killing all 269 persons on board. It was en route to Seoul from Anchorage, Alaska, when it strayed more than 200 miles (322 km) from its

Hangul, alphabetic system used for writing the Korean language. The system, known as Chosŏn muntcha in North Korea, consists of 24 letters (originally 28), including 14 consonants and 10 vowels. The consonant characters are formed with curved or angled lines. The vowels are composed of vertical or

Hamgyŏng Mountains, mountain range, northeastern North Korea. The range forms a watershed that separates the northern frontier area along the Chinese border from the eastern Sea of Japan (East Sea) area. The Hamgyŏng Mountains lie on the northeastern edge of the Kaema Highlands and stretch

Korean architecture, the built structures of Korea and their context. Like the other arts of Korea, architecture is characterized by naturalistic tendencies, simplicity, economy of shape, and the avoidance of extremes. What was a sharply curving Chinese roof was modified in Korea into a gently

Korean art, the painting, calligraphy, pottery, sculpture, lacquerware, and other fine or decorative visual arts produced by the peoples of Korea over the centuries. (Although Korean architecture is touched on here, it is also the subject of a separate article.) The art produced by peoples living

Korean calligraphy, the Korean art of beautiful writing as it was derived from Chinese calligraphy. Koreans have used Chinese characters probably since the 2nd or 3rd century ce. Even after the invention of Hangul in 1447, Chinese was used as the official script until the 19th century. A few

intelligence: South Korea: The agency, renamed the National Intelligence Service in 1999, collects and coordinates national security intelligence. The Defense Security Command of the Ministry of National Defense and the National Intelligence Service are responsible for the collection of national security intelligence, particularly with regard to the threat from North Korea. The…

comfort women: …Korea joined to establish the Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan after initial Japanese denial of responsibility. The council asked for an admittance of culpability, an apology, a memorial, and financial compensation for victims and that Japanese textbooks be appropriately altered to reflect the…

p’ansori, a genre of narrative song of Korea, typically performed dramatically by a vocalist, accompanied by a puk (double-headed barrel drum). Built from the word p’an, meaning “open space,” and sori, meaning “singing” or “sound,” the term p’ansori itself is a reference to the markets, public

hantavirus: …illnesses to be characterized was Korean hemorrhagic fever (also called hemorrhagic nephroso-nephritis), recognized during the Korean War (1950–53). Korean hemorrhagic fever is fatal in 5 to 15 percent of cases. It is caused by the Hantaan virus and is carried by the striped field mouse (Apodemus agrarius), a type of…

hornbeam: Major species: …brown when unfolding; the smaller Korean hornbeam (C. eximia), usually 9 metres (30 feet) tall, has egg-shaped slender-pointed downy leaves.

Kim Woo Choong: …over as chairman of the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI). The FKI, which represented the interests of several hundred companies, was considered South Korea’s most powerful business organization. Kim tried to use his new position to help combat South Korea’s economic slump, the worst since the end of the Korean…

serviceberry: …ranges over Europe, and the Asian serviceberry, or Korean juneberry (A. asiatica), which is a small tree native to East Asia. The name shadbush refers to the tendency of certain species to produce their profuse small blossoms when American shad (Alosa sapidissima) swim upriver to spawn in early spring. Several…

Korean language, language spoken by more than 75 million people, of whom 48 million live in South Korea and 24 million in North Korea. There are more than 2 million speakers in China, approximately 1 million in the United States, and about 500,000 in Japan. Korean is the official language of both

zoysiagrass: Japanese, or Korean, lawngrass (Z. japonica), Manila grass (Z. matrella), and Mascarene grass (Z. tenuifolia) were introduced into North America as turf and lawn grasses and tolerate a variety of growing conditions. The leaves are fine-bladed in both the Manila and Mascarene grasses.

lespedeza: striata), and the Korean lespedeza (K. stipulacea, formerly L. stipulacea), which are both native to Asia.

Korean literature, the body of works written by Koreans, at first in Classical Chinese, later in various transcription systems using Chinese characters, and finally in Hangul (Korean: han’gŭl; Hankul in the Yale romanization), the national alphabet. Although Korea has had its own language for

Korean music, the art concerned with combining vocal or instrumental sounds for beauty of form or emotional expression, specifically as it is carried out in Korea, or the Korean peninsula, where a strong indigenous tradition has been influenced by the Chinese and the Mongols. On a map the Korean

South Korea: Daily life and social customs: …important holidays are Seollal (Lunar New Year) and Chuseok (harvest moon festival, often referred to as the Korean Thanksgiving), both observed according to the lunar calendar. These are marked by the gathering of families in the ancestral hometown or at the home of the head of the family. Traditional…

Inchon landing: …June 25, 1950, North Korea’s Korean Peoples Army (KPA) had pushed relentlessly southward down the peninsula, driving before it the demoralized Republic of Korea Army (ROKA) and poorly prepared and understrength units of the U.S. 24th Division that had been hastily sent over from the Eighth Army in Japan. Not…

Korean performing arts, the dance and theatre arts of Korea, tied from the earliest records to religious beliefs and customs. These date to 1000 bce, and they describe magnificently costumed male and female shamans who sang and danced to musical accompaniment, drawing the heavenly spirits down to

Korean pottery, objects made of clay and hardened by heat: earthenware, stoneware, and porcelain of Korea. The influence of Chinese pottery on Korean pottery was so great that it is difficult to distinguish some Korean wares from those made in the northern provinces of China, especially of those

Korean Provisional Government, government in exile organized in April 1919 in Shanghai by Korean patriots. The provisional government was formed in reaction to Japanese suppression of the March 1st Movement, the struggle for Korean independence from Japanese rule that had begun with a proclamation

Korea: The end of Japanese rule: …December 1941 and organized the Korean Restoration Army, composed of independence fighters in China. This army fought with the Allied forces in China until the Japanese surrender in August 1945, which ended 35 years of Japanese rule over Korea.

Korean War, conflict between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives. The war reached international proportions in June 1950 when North Korea, supplied and advised by the Soviet Union,

Korean War Veterans Memorial, monument in Washington, D.C., honouring the U.S. military personnel who served in the Korean War (1950–53). It was authorized by Congress in 1986 and dedicated by U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton and South Korean Pres. Kim Young Sam on July 27, 1995, the 42nd anniversary of the

Bae Yong-Jun: The trend became known as hallyu, or “Korean Wave,” and it seemed to peak with the KBS drama series Gyeoul yeonga (2002; Winter Sonata). Though the story was a typical tale of star-crossed lovers, the performances of Bae and costar Choi Ji-Woo captivated the country. The Japanese network Nippon Hoso…

Korean Workers’ Party (KWP), North Korean political party that from its foundation (1946) in the early years of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) was the state’s primary agency of political power. According to the country’s constitution as amended in 1998, “The Democratic

Los Angeles Riots of 1992: …Central, the Pico-Union neighbourhood, and Koreatown, where relations between Korean merchants and their African American customers had already been tense. As firefighters battled blazes throughout the area, they became targets of snipers, and even air traffic was disrupted by safety concerns.

history of film: Japan: Koreeda Hirokazu made his directorial debut with Maboroshi no hikari (1995; Maborosi) and followed with Wandafuru raifu (1998; After Life). His later movies included Aruitemo aruitemo (2008; Still Walking),Soshite chichi ni naru (2013, Like Father, Like Son), and Umimachi diary (2015; Our Little Sister). Other…

Nora Kaye was an American dramatic ballerina, often referred to as the “Duse of the Dance.” Nora Koreff began taking dance lessons at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School at the age of eight. At age 15 she joined the Met’s corps de ballet, and, after further training under Michel Fokine and George

Quraysh, the ruling tribe of Mecca at the time of the birth of the Prophet Muḥammad. There were 10 main clans, the names of some of which gained great lustre through their members’ status in early Islām. These included Hāshim, the clan of the Prophet himself (see Hāshimite); Zuhra, that of his

Korematsu v. United States, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court, on December 18, 1944, upheld (6–3) the conviction of Fred Korematsu—a son of Japanese immigrants who was born in Oakland, California—for having violated an exclusion order requiring him to submit to forced relocation during

The New Yorker: Gahan Wilson, William Steig, Edward Koren, and Rea Irvin, who was the magazine’s first art director and the creator of Eustace Tilley, the early American dandy (inspired by an illustration in the 11th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica) who appeared on the cover of the first issue and on annual…

wrestling: Middle Ages: …style of loose wrestling called koresh, in which grips may be taken on the long, tight leather pants worn by the wrestlers and the bout ends with a touch fall of the loser briefly on his back. Gradually the Turks took over the entire Muslim dominion, and their wrestling style…

new religious movement: Apocalyptic and millenarian movements: …who later assumed the name David Koresh, took control of the group in 1987. Koresh taught a highly apocalyptic Christianity and identified himself with the Lamb of Revelation 5, which is traditionally associated with Christ. Allegations of child abuse and the launching of a retail gun business attracted the attention…

Korfanty Line, Polish–German boundary in Upper Silesia, proposed by Wojciech Korfanty. The line was never accepted as the official border but provided a basis for compromise that made the post-World War I Polish state economically viable. When the Allied powers concluded the Treaty of Versailles

Wojciech Korfanty was a political leader who played a major role in the national reawakening of the Poles of Upper Silesia and who led their struggle for independence from Germany. The son of a miner, Korfanty became a journalist and a member of the secret nationalist society “Z,” which resisted

korfball, game similar to netball and basketball, invented in 1901 by an Amsterdam schoolmaster, Nico Broekhuysen. It was first demonstrated in the Netherlands in 1902 and was played on an international level, primarily in Europe, by the 1970s. It was devised as a game for both sexes. A national

Xinjiang: Relief: …the Kashmir region and the Korgan in Xinjiang. In the east the Altun Mountains turn northeast and eventually merge with the Qilian Mountains in Gansu province.

Korhogo, town, north central Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast). The town’s traditional founder was Nangui (Nengué), a 14th-century Senufo (Senoufo) patriarch from Kong. Modern Korhogo (Heritage) is the chief trade centre (corn [maize], manioc, millet, and yams) for the Senufo farmers of the savanna.

Koli, caste with many subgroups who inhabit the central and western mountain area of India. The largest groups of Koli live in the state of Maharashtra, especially in Mumbai, and in Gujarat state. The traditional occupation of the coastal Koli is fishing, although many are now employed in schools

bustard: …paauw, the largest being the great paauw or kori bustard (Ardeotis kori). The Arabian bustard (A. arabs) is found in Morocco and in northern tropical Africa south of the Sahara, as are a number of species belonging to several other genera. In Australia the bustard Choriotis australis is called turkey.

Koryak, former autonomous okrug (district), far eastern Russia. In 2007 Koryak was merged with Kamchatka oblast (region) to form Kamchatka kray (territory). The Koryak area occupies the northern half of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the southern end of the Koryak Mountains, and the Penzhina Basin. The

Cuzco: …and several walls of the Koricancha (Coricancha), a Quechua name meaning “Golden Enclosure,” or “Golden Garden”; the site was dedicated to Viracocha, the creator deity, and Inti, the sun god, and is also known as the Temple of the Sun. It also contained shrines to a variety of other deities.…

Ogata Kōrin was a Japanese artist of the Tokugawa period (1603–1868), regarded, along with Sōtatsu, as one of the masters of the Sōtatsu-Kōetsu school of decorative painting. He is particularly famous for his screen paintings, lacquerwork, and textile designs. Kōrin was descended from a samurai

Sakai Hōitsu: He published Kōrin hyakuzu (One Hundred Paintings by Kōrin) and Ogata-ryū ryakuin-fu (“Album of Simplified Seals in the Ogata Style”) in observance of the 100th anniversary of Kōrin’s death. These works were instrumental in making Kōrin’s art very influential posthumously. Apart from being a revivalist, Sakai became…

Ogata Kōrin: …of the masters of the Sōtatsu-Kōetsu school of decorative painting. He is particularly famous for his screen paintings, lacquerwork, and textile designs.

Isthmus of Corinth, isthmus dividing the Saronic Gulf (an inlet of the Aegean Sea) from the Gulf of Corinth (Modern Greek: Korinthiakós), an inlet of the Ionian Sea. The Isthmus of Corinth connects the Peloponnese (Pelopónnisos) with mainland Greece. It is made up of heavily faulted limestone

Corinth Canal, tidal waterway across the Isthmus of Corinth in Greece, joining the Gulf of Corinth in the northwest with the Saronic Gulf in the southeast. The isthmus was first crossed by boats in 600 bce when Periander built a ship railway, small boats being carried on wheeled cradles running in

Isthmus of Corinth, isthmus dividing the Saronic Gulf (an inlet of the Aegean Sea) from the Gulf of Corinth (Modern Greek: Korinthiakós), an inlet of the Ionian Sea. The Isthmus of Corinth connects the Peloponnese (Pelopónnisos) with mainland Greece. It is made up of heavily faulted limestone

Eid al-Fitr, first of two canonical festivals of Islam. Eid al-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting, and is celebrated during the first three days of Shawwāl, the 10th month of the Islamic calendar (though the Muslim use of a lunar calendar means that it may fall in any

Korçë, city, southeastern Albania. It began as a feudal estate in the 13th century, and in 1484 the local lord, Koja Mirahor İlyas Bey, a Muslim convert active in the Ottoman siege of Constantinople (1453; now Istanbul), returned to the site and built the mosque that bears his name. In the 17th,

Kōriyama, city, central Fukushima ken (prefecture), northeast-central Honshu, Japan. It is situated in the valley of the Abukuma River, flanked to the west and east by mountain ranges trending north-south. Kōriyama is located at the junction of the main north-south rail line from Tokyo to Tōhoku

Yamato-Kōriyama, (Kōriyama-Goldfish), city, Nara ken (prefecture), western Honshu, Japan. It is located 3 miles (5 km) southwest of Nara city. A prehistoric settlement, it became a castle town during the last decade of the 15th century. With the opening of a trunk line of the National Railway, a

Wild Strawberries: His film Körkarlen (The Phantom Carriage, 1921) was one of Bergman’s favourites and a major influence on Wild Strawberries, which was Sjöström’s final performance. Sjöström won much praise for bringing empathy to a character who has spent his life as a cold and insulated person. Bergman later said,…

Korkino, city, Chelyabinsk oblast (region), west-central Russia, in the southern Urals. It is a centre of coal mining in the Chelyabinsk lignite (brown coal) basin; mining began in 1934, and the settlement became a city in 1942. Excavator and truck production reflect its mining orientation; other

Korku, tribal people of central India concentrated in the states of Mahārāshtra and Madhya Pradesh. At the end of the 20th century, they numbered about 560,000. However, poverty and restricted use of ancestral land due to government attempts to save the Bengal tiger have led to a serious problem of

Munda languages: Except in Korkū, where syllables show a distinction between high and low tone, accent is predictable in the Munda languages.

Vanuatu: History of Vanuatu: …under the francophone prime minister Maxime Carlot Korman.

nomocanon: …(1219), under the title of Kormchaya kniga (“Book of the Helmsman”), which was adopted by all the Slavic Orthodox churches. In the 18th century the need for collections of imperial laws having disappeared, new compilations, including only the ecclesiastical canons, replaced both the nomocanons and the Kormchaya kniga. The most…

rocket and missile system: Antiship: The West German Kormoran was also an air-launched missile. The Norwegian Penguin, a rocket-powered missile weighing between 700 and 820 pounds and employing technology derived from the U.S. Maverick air-to-surface missile, had a range of about 17 miles and supplemented its active radar guidance with passive infrared homing.…

fax: Early telegraph facsimile: …of photographs was demonstrated by Arthur Korn of Germany in 1902. Korn’s transmitter employed a selenium photocell to sense an image wrapped on a transparent glass cylinder; at the receiver the transmitted image was recorded on photographic film. By 1906 Korn’s equipment was put into regular service for transmission of…

Steve Kornacki is a journalist and television commentator known for his encyclopedic knowledge of political history and the intricacies of the electoral map. The MSNBC commentator has become famous in popular culture for providing frenetic, tireless analysis during the election cycle while wearing

Steve Kornacki is a journalist and television commentator known for his encyclopedic knowledge of political history and the intricacies of the electoral map. The MSNBC commentator has become famous in popular culture for providing frenetic, tireless analysis during the election cycle while wearing

Arthur Kornberg was an American biochemist and physician who received (with Severo Ochoa) the 1959 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering the means by which deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecules are duplicated in the bacterial cell, as well as the means for reconstructing this

Roger D. Kornberg is an American chemist, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2006 for his research on the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription. Kornberg studied chemistry at Harvard University (B.S., 1967) and Stanford University (Ph.D., 1972). He later served on the faculty of Harvard

Aleksandr Yakovlevich Tairov was the founder and producer-director (1914–49) of the Kamerny (Chamber) Theatre in Moscow, which, during the era of the Revolution, rivaled the Moscow Art Theatre in professional competence. Tairov took up law briefly before settling on a theatrical career. He worked

C.M. Kornbluth was an American writer whose science-fiction stories reflect a dark, acerbic view of the future. Kornbluth published science-fiction stories as a teenager. Called the Futurians, he and other young writers, including Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl (his frequent coauthor), composed and

C.M. Kornbluth was an American writer whose science-fiction stories reflect a dark, acerbic view of the future. Kornbluth published science-fiction stories as a teenager. Called the Futurians, he and other young writers, including Isaac Asimov and Frederik Pohl (his frequent coauthor), composed and

Kornelia Ender, a member of the controversial East German swimming program, emerged from the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal as the first woman to win four gold medals in one Olympics. Though East German swimmers won no gold medals at the 1972 Games in Munich, West Germany, Ender—one of the

British blues: …founding fathers include the guitarist Alexis Korner (b. April 19, 1928, Paris, France—d. January 1, 1984, London, England) and the harmonica player Cyril Davies (b. 1932, Denham, Buckinghamshire, England—d. January 7, 1964, England).

Friedrich Schiller: Early years and plays: …where he was befriended by Christian Gottfried Körner. A man of some means, Körner was able to support Schiller during his two years’ stay in Saxony, toward the end of which Don Carlos, his first major drama in iambic pentameter, was published (1787).

Old National Gallery: Emma Körner, and Anton Graff. Examples of Romantic art include a number of paintings by the German master Caspar David Friedrich, as well as portraits by Philipp Otto Runge. The gallery’s collection of Impressionist paintings includes the work of Édouard Manet, Claude Monet,

Theodor Körner was a German patriotic poet of the war of liberation against Napoleon in 1813 whose death in Lützow’s volunteer corps made him a popular hero. His father, Christian Gottfried Körner, was a friend of Friedrich Schiller. Körner grew up in a house frequented by writers and scientists.

Theodor Körner was an Austrian military officer during World War I and later a statesman who served as president of the second Austrian republic (1951–57). A colonel in the Austro-Hungarian Army at the outbreak of World War I, Körner was subsequently appointed chief of staff (May 1915) and

Theodor Körner was a German patriotic poet of the war of liberation against Napoleon in 1813 whose death in Lützow’s volunteer corps made him a popular hero. His father, Christian Gottfried Körner, was a friend of Friedrich Schiller. Körner grew up in a house frequented by writers and scientists.

Wilhelm Körner was a German organic chemist who in 1874 showed how to determine the relative positions of two substituents, such as methyl, on the benzene ring. For example, o-xylene forms two different mononitro derivatives; m-xylene forms three; and p-xylene forms only one. This method permitted

Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky was a Russian critic and writer of children’s literature, often considered the first modern Russian writer for children. Chukovsky grew up in impoverished circumstances. In 1901 he began working for the newspaper Odesskiye Novosti (“Odessa News”); he spent two years in

Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an American composer of Austro-Hungarian birth, best known as one of the originators of the genre of grand film music. He was also noted for his operas, especially for Die tote Stadt (1920; “The Dead City”), which earned him an international reputation. A child prodigy,

Russian Provisional Government: Kornilov’s Rebellion: The most effective spokesman for the new right was Gen. Lavr Kornilov, an officer of humble origin. He was the son of poor Cossack parents, basically apolitical but certainly no admirer of Nicholas II. Impressed by Kornilov’s military record and his personal qualities,…

Russian Provisional Government: Kornilov’s Rebellion: The most effective spokesman for the new right was Gen. Lavr Kornilov, an officer of humble origin. He was the son of poor Cossack parents, basically apolitical but certainly no admirer of Nicholas II. Impressed by Kornilov’s military record and his personal qualities,…

Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov was an Imperial Russian general, who was accused of attempting to overthrow the provisional government established in Russia after the February Revolution of 1917 and to replace it with a military dictatorship. An intelligence officer for the Imperial Russian Army during

International Space Station: …Year in Space,” Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Korniyenko and American astronaut Scott Kelly spent 340 days in orbit from March 2015 to March 2016. Kelly’s flight was the longest by an American. (Since Kelly’s brother, Mark, was his identical twin, as well as a former astronaut himself, scientists were able to…

Koro Sea, submarine depression in the floor of the South Pacific Ocean. The sea reaches a depth of more than 9,600 feet (2,930 metres) and intrudes northward and westward onto the shallow submarine shelf upon which the two largest islands of Fiji (Viti Levu and Vanua Levu) are situated. To the east

Koro Toro, site of paleoanthropological excavations in central Chad, best known for a fossilized fragment of a species of Australopithecus discovered there in 1995. The fossil, a fragment of the lower jaw, was found in sediments estimated to be 3.5–3 million years old. It was assigned to an

St. Petersburg: Admiralty Side: …of the earlier building of Ivan K. Korobov, which itself had been remodeled in 1727–38 but retained the layout of the original. Its elegant spire, topped by a weather vane in the form of a ship, is one of the principal landmarks of the city. The building today houses a…

Bolu: …the legendary Turkish folk hero Köroğlu.

Turkey: The northern folded zone: Bolu, Ilgaz, and Köroğlu mountains. East of the Yeşil the system is higher, narrower, and steeper. Less than 50 miles from the coast, peaks rise to more than 10,000 feet (3,000 metres), with a maximum elevation of 12,917 feet (3,937 metres) in the Kaçkar range. Separated by the…